Venus and Cupid with a Bow

1731

John Baptist Jackson

Artist, British, 1701 - 1780

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks in blue-gray, light brown, brown, and black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 25.1 × 16 cm (9 7/8 × 6 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.537

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kainen 1962, no. 2, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Leonard Baskin, MA . (The Book Press, Ltd., Williamsburg, VA); [1] Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739), purchased March 14, 1975; Gift to NGA, 2012.
[1] Alternatively, this impression could have been purchased from Frederick Mulder in 1976.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1989

  • Twenty Five Years of Collecting: The Washington Print Club, Dimrock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1989, no cat.

Bibliography

1962

  • Kainen, Jacob. John Baptist Jackson; 18th century master of the color woodcut. Washington, 1962: no. 2, only

Inscriptions

lower center in block: Tho. Brand Arm. Hospit. Temp D. D. D / J. B. Jackson sculptor; along left edge in image: F. M. Parm Inv.; verso in graphite: No. 2

Wikidata ID

Q76557124

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